Character sets supported by Gecko Redirect 1

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Character set names are used in the header of HTML documents to identify by which character set the content of a specific page should be processed. The following character sets are supported by Gecko and software based on it:

Charset name

Language

Notes

IBM-864

Arabic

ISO-8859-6

Arabic

MacArabic

Arabic

Windows-1256

Arabic

ARMSCII-8

Armenian

ISO-8859-13

Baltic

ISO-8859-4

Baltic

Windows-1257

Baltic

ISO-8859-14

Celtic

IBM-852

Central European

ISO-8859-2

Central European

MacCE

Central European

Windows-1250

Central European

GB18030

Chinese Simplified

GB2312

Chinese Simplified

GBK

Chinese Simplified

HZ

Chinese Simplified

ISO-2022-CN

Chinese Simplified

Big5

Chinese Traditional

Big5-HKSCS

Chinese Traditional

EUC-TW

Chinese Traditional

MacCroatian

Croatian

IBM-855

Cyrillic

ISO-8859-5

Cyrillic

ISO-IR-111

Cyrillic

KOI8-R

Cyrillic

MacCyrillic

Cyrillic

Windows-1251

Cyrillic

CP-866

Cyrillic/Russian

KOI8-U

Cyrillic/Ukrainian

MacUkrainian

Cyrillic/Ukrainian

MacFarsi

Farsi

GEOSTD8

Georgian

Note: This was never actually fully supported, and support was removed in Gecko 12.0 (Firefox 12.0 / Thunderbird 12.0 / SeaMonkey 2.9).